knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free.
knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
The wicked earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.
The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward. And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
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